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Over this last year or two my life has changed dramatically. My desires have also been changing and my heart even more so. I want to share with you just what that has mean’t for me.
I was in business, almost 30 years which involved working long hours and putting a lot of myself into it. Things started to change for me and the joy of running this business was gone, I had no peace even though I still did the work, putting the effort and care into it as I always did, it just seemed to get harder financially, emotionally and physically.
On top of this my desire to do more for the Lord was growing in my heart, to spend time with Him, to study and share the deep love that was growing in me for Him. I had a yearning to know Him more.
I became discouraged and burdened with the business, so there came a point nearly two years ago, that my husband and I decided to close the business down. This was a difficult and hard decision because I had given this business more than 30 years of my life. My desire to continue in business was gone and my desire to serve the Lord was greater. (I now believe this was the Lord at work in my heart - to let it go, He had something else for me)
Through being in business the Lord taught me many many things. I gave my life to Jesus 17yrs ago. He taught me to trust and lean on Him when times were difficult, to honour Him and seek Him first. To do onto others what I would want done onto me ie paying my bills on time, keep my word when I made a promise to return a phone call or finish an order. To stay out of strife when people were coming against me. From small things to bigger decisions. I am so grateful to Him for what He taught me through it all.
So now after two years my desire to know Him more has grown even stronger, my love for Jesus even deeper, this has never left me. Over this time the Lord has been teaching my husband and I new things, He has been connecting us with some wonderful people who love the Lord that I can call family. People that I can just be me around, without trying to be someone different.
I am so thankful for the children of God, the body of Christ, and have been so blessed and encouraged. My life has changed dramatically more so over the last 6-8 months. I am more fulfilled and know my purpose. That purpose is to follow Jesus.
Before I gave my life to the Lord I had an emptiness in my heart, I had no joy, I was broken, I was unhappy, I did not know how to do life well, I was an introvert. I found it hard to communicate what I was going through. My father abused me when I was a child, that changed me. Darkness seemed to surround me. At times I just did not want to live this life.
I never thought I could love or be loved. Jesus has changed this. The love I have in my heart is indescribable. I love Jesus so deeply and I know I am loved by Him. My heart is just overflowing. Before my heart had become hard because of life, now it is tender towards the Lord and towards others. I enjoy life and have a joy that life itself cannot give, it comes from knowing Jesus. I have a peace that cannot be quenched because of Jesus.
I share this because I want you to know that Jesus loves you too. He paid a price for you.
His body was whipped and ripped to the bare bone, this was for you to be well and healthy, he was stripped naked, spat on, He took your shame. After this He choose to go to the cross. He paid the price for your sins, that you could be forgiven, that you could live life healthy and well and have eternity with Him. He did that for you, all for you!
When we are born into this world we are born a sinner separated for God. Because its a fallen world because of what Adam and Eve did. To have what I am sharing with you there is only one way and that is to invite Jesus into your heart, to be reconciled with God. If you are wanting more, if you are searching for fulfilment, for purpose, its Jesus that you are searching for. He is the way and the only way.
John 14:6. I am the way the truth and life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Romans 3:23. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 10:13. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 10:9. That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
If you would like to ask Jesus to come into your life, say this simple prayer:-
Dear Lord Jesus, Thank you for what you did for me on the cross, I believe you are the Son of God, that you died for me and rose again and are alive today. I ask you to forgive me of my sins, I ask you to come into my heart and I make you Lord of my life. Fill me and baptise me with your Holy Spirit and fire. In Jesus name I pray. Amen
If you prayed this prayer please get in touch. I encourage you to find a fellowship of believers to go too and to start reading the Word of God. You will be blessed. Jesus loves you and wants to have a relationship with you. Start spending time with Him, talking, praying, listening. He will reveal Himself to you in ways you will know and understand. Saying that prayer is only the beginning of an amazing journey with the Lord Jesus Christ. He has a plan and purpose for your life. Go after Him, hunger for more, draw close to Him and He will draw close to you.
Ephesians 2:8-9. For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favour) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through (your) faith. And this (salvation is not of yourselves (of your own doing, it came not through your own striving), but it is the gift of God.
Love Denise
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